I was to busy/stressed yesterday to remember to post a poem, oops. BUT the demo lesson that I had this morning went well, I think. And here is a poem for today!

Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward by Gwendolyn Brooks ( Read more... )

Remix VIII sign-ups are still open for a few more hours! I know many of you who read this have written plenty in the qualifying fandoms. Especially would love to see all you Criminal Minds kids in there. My brain spat forth a couple NCIS stories, but not enough to qualify me before midnight ;o ( Read more... )

I got the most amusing (ish) email from the payroll department at Forrest today:

paycheck sent me a note and said that you have a payroll check uncashed

10-15-09 check#XXXXXXXX

Do you know where the check is ? Should I stop pay and re-issue?So apparently I have a paycheck sitting somewhere in the chaos of my room. At least it will make ( Read more... )

I have some sort of cold (at least I think it's a cold) most likely from teaching all last week for a teacher who was out with a cold/flu/bronchitis/plague. So my nose is stuffy and it's making me a little headachy to day, which is fun ( Read more... )

I'm sure I was going to post about something important (or useful or something) but all of that has paled in comparison to sharing with you about the owl and duck that are BFF, because it makes me thoroughly happy and I always feel I should share the happy when I can ( Read more... )

So one of my campers is reading The Westing Game as a school assigned summer reading book and I was Googling around to see if there were any useful websites or games. And then I found that Ellen Raskin donated all her manuscript and draft notes to UW-Madison so that students could see the process of writing a novel and creating cover art and page ( Read more... )

Poll Tutoring Companies: a Comparison

It wouldn't fit, but the subject line is a quote from Bill Cosby :o)

Another Silverstein because winkingstar reminded me! Also, because this reminds me of every kid when I substitute teach, who are mysteriously felled by bizarre ailments (my tongue itches! my elbow hurts!) right after recess.

Sick - Shel Silverstein ( Read more... )

In other words, the "new" icon meme that is going around. Stolen, most recently, from alemara, among others. Which of my icons do YOU think most represents me? Let me know!

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Or, in other words, if anyone has the soundtrack to Mamma Mia. I would love to... procure it. Because I re-watched the movie over the weekend and, as silly as James Bond Remington Steele Pierce Brosnan* singing is... the songs have been stuck in my head. So pretty please ( Read more... )